Evert Dolman

Evert Dolmann
	Evert Dolman (1968)
To person
Full name	Evert Gerardus Dolman
Nickname	Eef
Date of birth	February 22, 1946
date of death	May 12, 1993
nation	Netherlands
discipline	Street
End of career	1973
Most important successes
	Olympic Summer Games 1964 - team time trial UCI Road World Championships for Amateurs 1966 - road racing
	Last updated: May 10, 2019

Evert Dolman was the first to cross the finish line in the 1966 World Cup race at the Nürburgring

Evert "Eef" Gerardus Dolman (born February 22, 1946 in Rotterdam , † May 12, 1993 in Dordrecht ) was a Dutch cyclist , Olympic champion and world champion in cycling .

Athletic career

At the Olympic Games in Tokyo in 1964 , Evert Dolman won the gold medal in the team time trial with the Dutch team ( Gerben Karstens , Jan Pieterse and Bart Zoet ) at the age of 18 . At the road world championships in 1966 at the Nürburgring , Evert Dolman was world champion of the amateurs .

In 1964 Dolman, known as "Eef", was the Dutch road champion for amateurs, and in 1968 for professionals. In 1965 he won the Ronde van Noord-Holland and the Tour of Limburg , in 1967 a stage of the Vuelta a España , in 1971 (as the third Dutchman) the Tour of Flanders - five years after his World Cup victory he considered this victory to be one of his greatest triumphs . He took part in the Tour de France four times ; his best overall ranking was 32nd in 1970 .

In 1967 Evert Dolman won the Dutch road championship, but was disqualified in the course of the first doping tests for doping . As a result, he was so criticized in the newspapers that he decided never to dope again. In the following year he competed at the World Road Championships at the Nürburgring with anger in his stomach and won. His competitors said he had never done better.

1973 Evert Dolman ended his cycling career because of chronic pain. He died of Pick's disease at the age of 47 .

successes

1964

Olympic champion - team time trial (with Bart Zoet , Gerben Karstens and Jan Pieterse )

two stages tour of Austria

1965

Ronde van Noord-Holland
Limburg tour

1966

Amateur world champion - road racing

1967

a stage Vuelta a España

1968

Dutch champion - road race

1969

one stage tour of Luxembourg

1970

one stage tour of Andalusia

1971

Tour of Flanders

Grand Tour placements

Grand Tour	1967	1968	1969	1970	1971	1972
Vuelta a España	54	-	30th	DNF	36	-
Giro d'Italia	-	-	-	-	-	-
Tour de France	-	56	49	32	-	83

Legend: DNF: did not finish , abandoned or withdrawn from the race due to timeout.

literature

Fred van Slogteren: Wielerhelden van Oranje , Nieuwegein 2003, ISBN 90-77072-42-X . Pp. 73-75.

Web links

Commons : Evert Dolman - collection of images, videos and audio files

Evert Dolman in the Radsportseiten.net database

Evert Dolman in the ProCyclingStats.com database

Evert Dolman in the Sports-Reference database (English; archived from the original )

Individual evidence

↑ Fred van Slogteren: Evert Dolman, de derde Nederlander die de Ronde van Vlaanderen won! In: wielersport.slogblog.nl. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .
↑ Van Slogteren, Wielerhelden van Oranje , p. 75.

personal data
SURNAME	Dolman, Evert
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Dolman, Evert Gerardus (full name); Dolman, Eef Gerardus (nickname)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Dutch cyclist, Olympic champion and world champion
DATE OF BIRTH	February 22, 1946
PLACE OF BIRTH	Rotterdam
DATE OF DEATH	May 12, 1993
Place of death	Dordrecht

[slogblog-1180-1] Fred van Slogteren: Evert Dolman, de derde Nederlander die de Ronde van Vlaanderen won! In: wielersport.slogblog.nl. Retrieved May 10, 2019 .

[2] Van Slogteren, Wielerhelden van Oranje , p. 75.